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G. W. BEDINGER.

PLOW. No. 310,243. Patented Jan. 6, 1885.

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UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE .VASHINGTON BEDINGER, OF NEAR JOSHUA, TEXAS.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,2E8, dated January6, 1885.

A pplieation filed January 3, 1884.

Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEoW. BEDINGER, residing near Joshua, Johnsoncounty, Texas. have invented an Improvement in Plows, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in plows; and it consists in thepeculiar construction of the moldboard, as will be more fully describedhereinafter.

The accompanying drawing represents a mold-board which embodies myinvention.

A B represent the points or front corners of the share 0. From the pointA to the point D, on the landside edges of the share 0 and mold-board E,the edges extend backward and upward at about the angle shown, and forma curved line, with the greatest or deepest part of the curve at orabout the point F. The top edge of the mold-board, from the point D toG, forms a curved line, and from the point G to the point H the rearedge of the moldboard curves downward and inward. From this point H theedges of the mold-board and share curve downward and backward to thepoint J. The lower edge of share, between the points B J, forms thecurve-line, as shown.

In sticky soilssuch as there are in Texasit is necessary to give theshare and moldboard such a curve that the rising soil, as the I Nomodel.)

plow is drawn forward, is thrown off from the mold 4 board before itloses the motion imparted to it by the share. For this purpose an evencurve is given to the moldboard and share from the top to the bottom,the greatest or deepest portion of the curve being about on a linebetween the two points F H on, or about on, a horizontal line, and thetwo points N O on a diagonal line running from top to bot-tom. Theproportions be tween the different parts are as shown in the drawing.The angle between the lines A J and D J is twenty-nine degrees, and thedepth of the curve between these points A D isabout three inches. Theangle between the two lines A G and A J is eighteen degrees, and betweenthe lines D A and A J is thirty-three degrees.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The plow mold-board hereinshown and described, formed according to the lines A G, A D, D J, andthe curved lines A K G, A F D, and J K D, and having the angles,outlines, and proportions as set forth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON BEDINGER.

XVitnesses:

A. J. GARRISON, W. G. Jonas.

